By LARRY BALLWAHN | Wilton
Seventy-one-year-old Captain Jeffrey Kyle Kidd read the news. Not as you might do or even as Walter Cronkite did. The time was just after the Civil War. Many people couldn’t read or couldn’t read well. Telegraphs and rail service were in sad shape in the south if they had even existed outside the main cities. So, when the captain came to town, many paid their dime and listened to the captain as he read about current events and happenings in far-off places. At present, he was in North Texas.
Kidd was summoned from his most recent reading by a cartage acquaintance to attempt to solve a problem. Britt Johnson had accepted the job of returning a captive girl to her relatives in Castroville, Texas, south of San Antonio. Her parents had been killed by the raiding Kiowa, and her uncle had sent a $50 gold piece to the Indian Agent to assist with her return. Johnson had agreed to help, but he had freight to haul, and Castroville was too far off his usual ro
Directed by Paul Greengrass.
Starring Tom Hanks, Helena Zengel, Fred Hechinger, Michael Angelo Covino, Thomas Francis Murphy, Elizabeth Marvel, Mare Winningham, Neil Sandilands, and Chukwudi Iwuji.
SYNOPSIS:
A Civil War veteran agrees to deliver a girl, taken by the Kiowa people years ago, to her aunt and uncle, against her will. They travel hundreds of miles and face grave dangers as they search for a place that either can call home.
The headliner of
News of the World may be Tom Hanks, but it’s every bit newcomer Helena Zengel’s movie. Aside from spreading the news, journeying across the frontier, and facing many perilous situations on the way, the latest from director Paul Greengrass (adapting the book of the same name by Paulette Jiles and co-writing the script with Luke Davies) is ultimately about two individuals who have had their lives ripped away from them searching for a place of belonging. The three-time war veteran and Civil War soldier Jeffrey Kyle Kidd (Tom Hank